Oil International Trading Course
In this ”Oil International Trading Course” participants will leave this course with a thorough understanding of the workings of crude oil markets and the range of contracts, tools and techniques available to traders.
- London, Abu Dhabi
- Next: 05-08 May 2026
- 4 Days
- From 5,770.00 + VAT
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Oxford Executive Institute
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Oxford Executive Institute
14/03/2026 10:23 AM
London
05 May 2026
4-Days
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£5,770.00
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Oxford Executive Institute
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Oxford Executive Institute
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4-Days
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£5,770.00
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Oxford Executive Institute
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Oxford Executive Institute
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Abu Dhabi
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£5,770.00
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| This Program fils quickly, please book as early as possible. Fees Exclude VAT – Venu: Radisson Blu Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, 97 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LB – We reserve the right to change the venue, so please do NOT book your accommodation before you receive program confirmation email. – Corporate referral rates are available on request. – Residential course booking is available if booked 6 weeks before the commencement of the program, please enquire for residential booking prices. |
What You Will Learn?
In this ”Oil International Trading Course” participants will leave this course with a thorough understanding of the workings of crude oil markets and the range of contracts, tools and techniques available to traders.
Enhance your knowledge in the following key areas:
- Supply and demand: fundamentals and implications
- Crude evaluation and selection
- Physical markets, pricing & price exposure
- An introduction to brent
- Oil trading and jargon
- Hedging instruments: forward & futures
- Oil refining
- Swaps
- International product trade flows and transport
- Trading: options and risk management strategies
- Dated Brent and the 21 Day BFO market & CFD’s
- Market reporting and price assessment
- ICE
- Management issues Featuring: An electronic refining & trading simulation – put into practice what you have learnt from the course by competing against the other delegates in this real life electronic trading game
Agenda
Day 1: Crude Oil and Physical Trading
History of Oil and Oil Trading
- How oil trading has developed over the last 100 years.
- The growth and decline of the role of major oil companies.
- OPEC its history and influence over world oil markets
- The role of traders, speculators, banks, hedge funds and algorithmic trading.
Physical Crude Oil
- Crude oil classification, important characteristics, and assays
- Different types of crude oil production and the associated costs
- The Growth of North American Shale and Oil Sands Crude Supply
Global Crude Oil Supply and Demand and Current Market Influences
- Crude oil fundamentals and implications
- Oil Reserves and Production
- The future of the oil price in world markets
- What are the drivers for crude oil supply and demand?
Crude Oil Pricing Methodologies and Benchmarks
- Physical crude oil trading and pricing mechanisms
- Introduction to price exposure and positions
- The role of benchmarks in crude oil pricing
- Brent crude oil as a benchmark and its evolution
- Dated Brent
- The Role of Price Reporting Agencies
Doing a Deal
- Trading Terminology
- A physical trading deal life cycle
- The Art of Negotiation
What is crude oil worth?
- Gross Product Worth Exercise.
Day 2 The Financial Markets
Derivative Trading instruments
- Forwards
- Futures Trading
- Futures Clearing
- Hedging and Speculative Trading
- Forward Curves
- Flat Price Trading
Day 2 Trading Simulation:
trading an oil-based crude futures contract, a new unique simulation based on real historic events and news feeds where the price path actually reflects participants’ actions.
- OTC Derivatives
- Swaps
- OTC Clearing
- Options
- Introduction to styles of trading
The Psychology of Trading
- The “Financialisation of Energy Markets
- Theories of market behaviour: Efficient markets vs. Adaptive Market Hypothesis
- How we make decisions
- Overview of Behavioural and Cognitive Bias
- Risk Aversion
- Overconfidence
- Persuasion and hindsight bias
- Information bias
- Groupthink
- A Framework for Understanding Trader Psychology
Day 3: Logistics, Arbitrage, Risk Management, Trading Best Practice
- Fundamental Analysis
- Exposure and Mark to Market
- Forward Curves
- Physical Oil Contracts
- Shipping and Arbitrage
- Worldscale
- Physical and Financial Arbitrage
- Freight Forward market
- Trading Strategies
- Risk Management
- Risk Profile, Risk Appetite
- Defining risk management activities and terms
- Close out value – liquidity measures in OTC markets
- Understanding and interpreting value-at-risk measures, VaR
- Stress tests as a complementary tool to VaR and other market risk measures.
- Risk Reports – Enhancing exposure reports with risk analysis.
- Risk Framework
- MIFID2, MAD and other regulatory changes directly effecting oil trading and traders.
- Technical Trading
- Spreads and Arbitrage Trading
Day 3 Simulation
Arbitrage Trading, using crude contracts to simulate arbitrage trade flows. Once again we will be using a simulation based on real historic events and news feeds with where the price path actually reflects participants actions
Days 4 : Refining and Oil Products, Advanced Trading Techniques and Joining the Dots
Oil Refining 101, Refining Economics and Current Oil Refining Issues
- How refineries work
- Refinery logistical constraints
- Oil refining today and the future
- Refinery configurations
- Variations in Yield: Configuration, Mode, Crude Type
- Refining margins & economics
- -Refining Linear Programme
The Oil Products Markets
- LPG
- Gasoline including a blending exercise
- Kerosene
- Diesel
- Fuel Oil
Biofuels
- Ethanol and the RINS markets
- Biodiesel and the Vegetable Oils Markets.
Petrochemicals
- The dual role of naphtha
- Steam Cracking and the global plastics industry
Emissions and Carbon Markets
- Energy Fundamentals
- Joining the Dots – how other energy and commodity markets interact with the oil market.
- Introduction to styles of trading
- Spreads and Cracks Trading, relative value trading
Day 4 Simulation
Products and cracks trading – using crude and products contracts to simulate crack trading in the US and Europe. Once again, we will be using a simulation based on real historic events and news feeds where the price path reflects participants actions. This is a complex simulation which allows participants to use all the skills they have learnt during the four days of training.
Who should attend:
This ”Oil International Trading Course” will be beneficial to:
- Traders
- Refiners
- Sales & marketing
- Account managers
- Economists
- Analysts
- Risk managers
- Operations managers
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